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River Of The Time 時間河流One step in present is a history of tomorrow. Without the past, without the present. September 21 Success recipes most people know, but too few followIf you want to look back on a life that fills you with joy, conventional rules for success are not the place to start 1. Don't chase money, power, or status. If they come to you, that's fine. But most conventional ideas about success go wrong because they focus on outcomes instead of on the processes of living. Outcomes come around from time to time, but life itself—the process of living, acting, thinking, and being—happens all the time. No outcome is going to make a lousy, miserable process feel worthwhile. If you hate what you do, no amount of power or money will make up for that. If your life is constantly stressful, boring, unhappy, or frustrating, how can achieving some high status once in a while make up for all the miserable days and weeks you spent getting there? It's tempting to feel that the end will more than make up for the means; that you'll forget the misery in the blaze of achievement. And you will—for a few moments. Then you'll be back on the treadmill, with only the distant hope of some fresh achievement or monetary gain to console you. That's like being a laboratory rat conditioned to unnatural behavior by occasional pellets of food. 2. Take whatever time you need to discover what matters to you most Success isn't simply a matter of money, power, or prestige. You could gain all of those and still feel that you have fallen short of what you wanted; or you could gain none of them and be blissfully happy and fulfilled. What constitutes personal success is mostly in your mind. It has much less to do with finding the best career in other peoples' eyes, creating a killer business, or holding down a fancy job with a big salary than with achieving what really matters to you. Many people find this out too late. They struggle for years to get where other people said they should go, only to find it does little or nothing for them. Sad;y, it's often too late by then to do anything else. 3. Don't base your choices on others' approval. We all want to please those we care about, so it's natural to try to do what they approve. Natural, but rarely a good idea as the basis for life's choices. I don't say that you should deliberately ignore sound advice, or reject a career path simply because other people suggest it. But even the most loving parent or friend can't always see what is going to make your heart sing. Listen to others. Value their input and their support. But go your own way. It's better to be committed to doing what you truly love than accept something lesser for the sake of being approved by someone else. 4. Stay authentic. That means always doing what truly matters to you and is part of who you are. The simplest definition of a hypocrite is someone who says one thing and does another: like a person who says that he or she wants to work at something that benefits society, then forgets that at the first sight of a fistful of dollar bills. Somewhere inside of you is a part that recalls what truly matters and will never quite let you forget it. Over the years, that inner voice is only going to get louder. 5. Go for meaning over money every time. It's perfectly possible to do something meaningless to you and earn a great deal of cash while doing so. Some people do, especially in parts of the media world. It just requires a stronger stomach and more cynicism that most people possess, plus a huge tolerance for boredom. Is it worth it? If money is truly all that matters to you—and you can make lots of it quickly and get out—it might be. Few areas of work will allow you to do that, aside from criminal ones. Meaningless days corrode most peoples' minds and destroy their happiness. Doing something that means a great deal to you almost always makes you feel energized and alive. It's your choice. 6. Be endlessly greedy—for learning. You can never learn too much or overfill your mind with new ideas. Nothing is more useful in life than a well-developed, well-stocked mind, especially one that has been broadened and enlarged in the process. It's hard to name a single famously successful person who was narrow-minded, bigoted, or stupid. The list of notable successes who are recognized for the power of their minds is long. And you don't have to have had an expensive education to be able to develop a great mind. There have been plenty of near geniuses whose education was almost entirely self-produced. 7. Make a friend of failure. You are certain to fail sometimes, and the higher your aspirations, the more frequent and significant that failure will be. People who don't strive for anything glorious rarely fail; they take no risks and never aim beyond what is easily attainable. But if you treat failure as an enemy, it's going to lead only to discouragement and even the abandoning of your hopes and dreams. Failure can be a friend, pointing out what isn't right yet and showing you the way to do better. The more proficient you become at accepting the lessons of failure, the quicker you will succeed. 8. Make sure that every time you make a mistake, it's a new one. Making the same mistake several times shows that you haven't learned what it can teach you. Making new mistakes proves that you're trying something different. The best definition of a loser is someone who makes the same mistakes over and over again, never managing to learn anything in the process. Such a person is doomed. 9. Choose to spend your time with the right people. I don't mean that in the sense of the rich and the powerful, the movers and shakers of society. Whether they're powerful or not, the best people to spend time with are those from whom you can learn most: the ones whose own lives have brought them joy and endless fulfillment. That means people who do what they love and love what they do. People who have become experts in life, thinking people, people with wide-open minds and wide-open hearts. Seek them out wherever you can. Listen to them. Never mind if they are no longer living. Read their books and emulate their largeness of spirit. Learn from them all, but don't simply copy what they did in this world. What they did was right for them, but may not be right for you. What you need to use as models are their ways of thinking and responding to the challenges of the world; the process of their lives, not what it happened to contain. 10. Drop whatever is inconsistent with these principles. That means all activities that don't move you forward towards what you value most; things that get in the way of learning; pursuits that waste time and dull your senses; and people who hold you back. You may sometimes have to be ruthless. Each of us has only one life. If you waste it, you don't get another chance. Besides, if you have chosen your dreams and aspirations wisely, what you must leave behind by dropping what's inconsistent with those dreams will not be worth worrying about anyway. Those who make bad choices find, too late, that they have abandoned things and people that meant more to them than whatever they gained in exchange. If that happens, you have truly reached one of life's lowest points. March 14 从《魔兽世界》学到的七件事
37岁的约翰·奥古斯特被认为是好莱坞年轻一代的天才编剧。不过,最近他在自己的博客上“忏悔”,自己4个月来沉湎于网络游戏的世界。戒掉魔兽之后,他终于可以完成自己的导演处女作《完美假象》(TheNines),一部小成本,已经在圣丹斯电影节上放映了。 February 17 What comes around, goes around...Story...worth a thought....
December 20 Strongest Dad In The WorldThanks for Danny who share this great video and story to me. I just wanna it to all of my friends. 希望這個故事, 的確可激勵到他人... 一段令人震撼的片子,這部影片叫"Team Hoyt" Strongest Dad in the World [From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly] I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck. Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day. Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right? And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life. This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs. `He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an ins titution.'' But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,''Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.'' "Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want to do that.'' Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore for two weeks.'' That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!'' And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.
``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the following year. Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?'' How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick tried. Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Iron-mans in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you think? Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own?``No way,'' he says. Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together. This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best time'? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time. ``No question about it,'' Rick t ypes. ``My dad is the Father of the Century.''And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' one doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.'' So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life. Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass., always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day. That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy. ``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.'' Click the picture below to watch the video,
November 29 Kiss The Rain - 雨中的印記星星满天的夜晚,一个人静静的聆听着这一首歌,回味着自己的人生,感觉就像一部戏。。。自己就是最好的导演。。。
This song is dedicated to all my friends for your supports & care.
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各也扎职以后没法畅聚 而终於相约到但无言共对疏淡如水 曰夜做见爸爸刚好想呻 却霎眼看出他多了皱纹 而他的苍老感是从来未觉太内疚担心 最心痛是爱得太迟有些心意 不可等某个曰子 盲目地发奋忙忙忙其实自私 梦中也习惯有压力要我得知 最可怕是爱需要及时只差一秒 心声都已变历史 忙极亦放肆见我爱的见双至 要抱要吻怎黱也好 偏要推说要等一下次 我也觉我体质仿似下降 看了症得到是别要太忙 而影碟都扫光但从来未看因有事赶 曰夜做储的钱都应该够 到圣诞正好讲跟我白头 谁知她开了口未能挨下去己恨我很久 错失太易爱得太迟我怎想到 她忍不到那曰子 盲目地发奋忙忙忙从来未知幸福会掠过 再也没法说钟意爱一个字 也需要及时只差一秒 心声都己变历史为忙未放肆 见我爱见的双至要抱要吻要怎黱也好 不要相信一切有下次 相拥我所爱又花几多秒 这几秒能够做到又有多少 未算少足够遗憾忘掉 多少抱憾多少过路人 太懂估计却不懂爱锡自身 人人在发奋想起他朝都兴奋 但今晚未过你要过也很吸引 纵不信运你不过是人 你想很远爱於咫尺却在等 来曰别操心趁你有能力开心 世界有太多东西发生不要等到天 |
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